K-12 software modernized to Azure, 70% faster than baseline.

# EdTech Customer Story — 70% faster modernization

**Industry:** EdTech
**Cloud:** Azure
**Outcome:** 70% faster modernization

## Summary
A containerized K-12 suite with 70% cut off the usual modernization timeline.

## The Challenge
A leading K-12 education software provider was running mission-critical .NET applications that students, teachers, and administrators depended on every school day. Availability dips, slow patch cycles, and frequent bug-fix downtime were directly degrading the classroom experience.The legacy infrastructure couldn't gracefully absorb traffic surges around term starts, exam windows, and back-to-school enrollment. Scaling required heavy lifting, and every new district onboarded added more operational drag.The team needed to containerize their .NET estate, enable multi-tenancy, and move to Azure — all without rewriting source code or disrupting active school deployments.

## The Solution
CloudHedge delivered an automated containerization program targeting Microsoft Azure with managed Kubernetes services as the runtime. The legacy .NET and .NET Core applications were packaged into containers without code changes, then redeployed behind a multi-tenant architecture that could serve districts in isolation on a shared platform.The discovery, packaging, and orchestration work was driven by CHAI Flow, which automated containerization and stitched the resulting workloads into modern CI/CD pipelines. Managed Kubernetes absorbed the operational toil of patching, scaling, and node maintenance.Crucially, the modernization preserved the customer's existing investments — same code, same business logic, dramatically better runtime — so engineering teams could keep shipping features while the platform itself was upgraded underneath them.

## The Outcome
The project landed 70% faster than the original delivery estimate, with infrastructure costs dropping by 55% as services were redistributed across containers instead of dedicated VMs. Managed Kubernetes effectively eliminated maintenance downtime, and new environments could be provisioned in minutes rather than days.The customer now has a multi-tenant, Azure-native platform that scales elastically with the school calendar — and they got there without rewriting a single line of source code.


## Stack
- Microsoft Azure
- Azure Kubernetes Service
- Docker
- .NET
- .NET Core
- CI/CD
- CHAI Flow



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